Ezra Koenig Quotes
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.
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People think, 'Jack, you do too much.'
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I am a mortician who tells you that you don't necessarily need a mortician.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.
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We have a bad image in the world, I've got to admit. I just want people to think twice about Colombia. Don't go by the first impression.
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I am very superstitious. I trod on a wet towel before winning the Junior World Championships, and now I have to do that every time.
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I love doing hair and makeup and making 'Video Star' videos with my friend, Kendall. I also love to draw. But my life is dance, dance and more dance. I wouldn't want it any other way.
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I don't like when I look too cluttered.
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Having been connected with industry during my entire life, it seems eminently proper that I should turn back, in part, the proceeds of that activity with the hope of promoting a broader as well as a better understanding of the economic principles and national policies which have characterized American enterprise down through the years.
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I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.
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I believe that what I am putting into my body is just as important as what I am putting on my body.
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Many performance poets seem to believe that yelling a poem makes it comprehensible. They are wrong.
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Of course, if this season turns out to be terrible for me - if I get injured again and this prevents me from reaching a satisfying level, then I could change my decision again. But at this moment, it absolutely feels like the right thing for me to continue through 2003.
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To this day, I adore classical music, and I'm very interested in opera, which I found out later my father was also extremely fond of.
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It's taken me a long time to get work, so that's why I like to play really different characters that are really foreign to me. I want it to be something great, and I want to have a great experience.
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Everybody has ideas. The vital question is, what do you do with them? My rock musician sons shape their ideas into music. My sister takes her ideas and fashions them into poems. My brother uses his ideas to help him understand science. I take my ideas and turn them into stories.
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The music business doesn't take up that much of my time. I probably should put a little more energy into it.
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You have to arrive… the way the music has to feel.
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We sit down with the kids every single night, not that I want to every night - sometimes I'd rather be out with my husband having a martini at a swanky restaurant - but we sit down with our kids every night at dinner.
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Issues of energy, climate change, nuclear arms control and non-proliferation are all big deals. These are problems that we have to get right globally, not just nationally, and there are big benefits in cooperating, in terms of sharing costs, in terms of sharing risks, in terms of propagating the best answers.
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Well, growing up in the '90s, my first true love was ska music.
